California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 2 — Healing ArtsChapter 5 — MedicineArticle 12 — EnforcementSection 2241.6
The Division of Medical Quality shall develop standards before June 1, 2002, to assure the competent review in cases concerning the management, including, but not limited to, the undertreatment, undermedication, and overmedication of a patient’s pain. The division may consult with entities such as the American Pain Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the California Society of Anesthesiologists, the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and any other medical entity specializing in pain control therapies to develop the standards utilizing, to the extent they are applicable, current authoritative clinical practice guidelines.
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Requires the Division of Medical Quality to develop, before June 1, 2002, standards ensuring competent review of pain-management cases, including undertreatment, undermedication, and overmedication. The division may consult listed pain and medical organizations and other pain-therapy specialists and may use current authoritative clinical-practice guidelines to the extent applicable.
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